From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 29 08:59:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00987 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:59:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [207.227.50.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00967 for ; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 08:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randyd@nconnect.net) Received: from nconnect.net (arabian.microxp.com [209.207.52.35]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA02148; Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:44:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35475066.BEEAA024@nconnect.net> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 11:08:06 -0500 From: Randy DuCharme Reply-To: randyd@nconnect.net Organization: Computer Specialists X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Myron CC: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: will this idea work? References: <3546A165.728C0BFA@hsonline.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Myron wrote: > > ok, now my / filesystem is "really" small it's about 79% full with about > 6 megs left. now the only thing that really uses that filesystem now is > the /tmp. so my idea is to rm -r /tmp and then mkdir /usr/tmp then ln -s > /usr/tmp tmp (I think that's how to you do it) but if I create a > symbolic link to /usr/tmp in my / filesystem. will that work? this way > my tmp will have around 588 megs to do it's job. because sometimes when > I try to "make install" stuff it gives me errors how my / filesystem is > full.. well it's just an idea. thanks. This is exactly what I do with /tmp. I also set the sticky bit. Randall D DuCharme Systems Engineer Novell, Microsoft, and UNIX Networking Support Computer Specialists BSDI Internet Success Partners 414-253-9998 414-253-9919 (fax) BSD/OS Authorized Resellers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message